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Medical Malpractice Insights: The challenge of suicide evaluation in the ED

EMDocs

The nurse completes the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) and documents that the patient’s recent thoughts of killing himself and his detailed plan makes him “High Risk” for suicide. There is no documented handoff to the on-coming emergency physician (EP) who assumes care. ” 0700 : The PA-C goes off-shift.

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A man in his 30s with chest pain. How was he managed? What if they had used the Queen of Hearts?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Last ECG: Final Diagnosis: "NSTEMI" This patient will likely suffer heart failure and early death due to the diagnosis of "NSTEMI" Learning Points: Despite NSTEMI guidelines recommending emergent angiography for NSTEMI patients with refractory ischemic symptoms, this is simply not done in many systems, and this has been recorded in a study as well.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 2/5/24 (Issue #28)

PulmCCM

Fever in the ICU: Guideline Update The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) issued an interim update to their 2008 recommendations for the management of fever in the ICU. You can read the document here. Read the original document here. What’s a Fever?

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The Infomercial Comes to The Wall Street Journal

Sensible Medicine

“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should make establishing payment codes for products involving women’s heart disease a priority to prompt private insurers to cover new service lines.” Jindal served as governor of Louisiana, 2008-16, and a U.S. ” The authors call for action by federal regulators.

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PECARN STELAR Podcast – Episode 2: Food Insecurity

EMDocs

Insurance companies paying more attention to addressing social needs Medicaid: 1115 Demonstration Waivers, CalAIM in California ICD-10 code modifiers to acknowledge – and compensate—for the added complexity of social needs Additional resources/further reading: Liberman DB, Pham PK, Semple-Hess JE. JAMA Pediatr. 2016 Nov 7;170(11):e162521.

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SGEM#256: Doctor Doctor Give Me the News, I Gotta Bad Case of RLQ Pain – Should I have an Appendectomy?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Background: The first documented appendectomy was done by Claudius Amyand in 1735. Omar et al (2008) showed just how safe laparoscopic appendectomies have become. Exclusion: Patients with co-occurring diagnosis or procedure codes consistent with complicated appendicitis and patients lacking appendectomy codes.

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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

Creation of an accurate database of emergency physicians living and working within a state, as well as a network of each states’ EM groups and ED medical directors would help chapter leaders disseminate relevant information, strengthen advocacy efforts, and plan regional solutions summits to focus on unique challenges.